Externals Objects

External objects need to be explicitly detected by pd4web. This process is not fully automatic. You must provide enough information for pd4web to know which libraries your objects come from—especially when different libraries contain objects with the same name.

How detection works

pd4web can detect externals in two ways:

• By using a library prefix, such as else/knob or else/keyboard.
• By declaring the libraries you use, for example:
  declare -lib else or declare -lib timbreIDLib.

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If you do not specify this information, external objects will fail to load, and you will likely see errors such as:
knob: object can't be found.